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May 2017
2h 39m

Genesis - Chaos and Order

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Lecture 2 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories. In this lecture, I present Genesis 1, which presents the idea that a pre-existent cognitive structure (God the Father) uses the Logos, the Christian Word, the second Person of the Trinity, to generate habitable order out of precosmogonic chaos at the beginning of time. Learn more about y ... Show More
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